Re: how to know a hard drive will mix well

[David Thorburn-Gundlach <davidtg-robot@justpickone.org>]

Roger, et al --

...and then Roger Heflin said...
% I have mixed many drives, I have never really had a major slowness.  At

Good to know.


% worst you will be limited by the drive with the slowest seeks/transfer
% rate.  So long as one disk's RPM is not significantly different you should

That's pretty much what I was wondering, but I imagine if it's the same
RPM and the same cache and the same SATA rate it should be ... about the
same.


% not notice it, unless you are running your array right at the limit.

Hmmph.  I'm not entirely sure I'm not anyway, but it is just a little PC
mobo running primary and daughtercard SATA ports.  A Real Server (tm) is
far, far beyond the current horizon :-)


% 
% Technically you may want to also look at another parm that is the sustained
% transfer rate range coming off the platter.  This will be a range that is
[snip]

Oh, thanks!  Sounds good.


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